The Washington Capitals are celebrating Hockey is For Everyone Night at Verizon Center, and it’s already There is an auction, a ceremonial puck-drop featuring Sam Smith of the Washington Ice Dogs, and Chesapeake Wild helping out in the Caps’ tunnel.

And during warm-ups, the Caps rocked rainbow-colored pride tape on their sticks.

Just wanna use this opportunity to say that I’m really happy with the league and team and players for this. I can’t imagine this happening a decade ago. Hockey’s a cool sport, and we’ve got a good community here in DC. The more, the merrier. As far as we’re concerned, everyone’s welcome.